Wednesday, February 18, 2009

DSM V Suggestion 1: Histrionic Blogger Personality Disorder

My dear and wise husband reminded me that I write this blog for fun, and not to be pithy, insightful and win the on-line version of the Booker. So, may I present to you what will hopefully be the first in a series:

Histrionic Blogger Personality Disorder:

A pervasive pattern of excessive emotional and attention seeking blog-writing, beginning at the start of the blog, and present in a variety of on-line writing locations, such as Blogger, Twitter, Wordpress, the comments section on many other blogs, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

is uncomfortable when not nominated for random meaningless online blogging awards

interaction with others is often characterised by inappropriately provocative posts or comments on other blogs

consistently uses appearance or existence of blog to draw attention to self

has a style of writing that is excessively lacking in detail, and writes about deep and meaningful concepts at an emotionally immature level (e.g., "The patient cried, and I held her hand, which made me feel like Character X on Medical Show Y.")

7 comments:

I really did, that's so creative. Also, there's a girl in my year who meets the criteria for histrionic personality and she's totally absolutely hooked on MySpace / blogging and cannot bear not to update as soon as she gets home from uni, and her profile photo is carefully composed showing her left side because that's her best, and all of her friends online just love hearing about how exciting but scary it is to be a medical student (nearly a doctor, OMG!)... ;)